Tuesday, February 18, 2014

The Mummy!

Despite a disastrous weekend's painting, due to spending most of it at my parents in law as we got their house back together following the floods, I have finished the next figure for my Servants of Ra company for In Her Majesty's Name as I have a game with Alastair next Monday (I hope).

This is a mummified priest which, in my version of the company, has been brought to life by Sir Lawrence Swann, orientalist painter and delver into the arcane rituals of Ancient Egypt. According to the rules you can field a number of these and I have another Foundry mummy somewhere. North Star also have a particularly nice example which I will have to pick up too.

The Legatus on location

Most of the models I have seen painted have gone for a sort of zombie flesh pale pallor but I'm basing mine more on some of the the ones I saw in the Cairo Museum in 2006, which were a dark reddish brown.

I have two more figures to complete for my Servants of Ra (who I gather are utterly useless in the game!) but they are well on the way.

Cool stuff - I think the flesh tone works well, I'm sure they'd develop a healthy tan living in Egypt - though if a mummy can be said to be 'living' I am not so sure!Nice pic (I always thought your profile pic made you look a bit like Clarkson - all 'JetSet and Interesting', but from your ramblings here you're pretty JetSet and Interesting anyway!) - I'd like to see the pyramids - some day... some day...